The LTER Network has grown from a handful of independent sites to a true network with cross-site experiments, synthetic science, coordinated data management, and standard community practices. LTER community members managed a great deal of that growth, with modest financial support from the LTER Network Office in the form of working group funds. The record of past working groups is – in many ways – a record of the focus and priorities of the LTER Network through time.

Working Group Title Principal Investigator Type Award Year Final Report
The Impacts of Within Season Rainfall Variability Across Ecosystems , 2009 Final Report (PDF)
Facilitating cross-synthesis research 2009 Final Report (PDF)
Future Scenarios of land change , , 2008 Final Report (PDF)
Long Term Hydrologic change: Disturbance legacies in material flux , , 2008 Final Report (PDF)
Workshop to promote synthesis products from the EcoTrends project , , 2008
Socioecological dynamics of residential landscapes , 2008 Final Report (PDF)
Collaborative development of a project database 2008 Final Report (PDF)
Design challenges and Solutions for establishing a Network of Socio-ecological Research sites , 2008 Final Report (PDF)
Ecosystem response to changing ice, snow and permafrost in a warming climate. Andrew Fountain|Hugh Ducklow , 2008
TRENDS , , 2006
Collaborative Research on Desertification between the Jornada Basin and Mongolian LTER , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and environmental gradients to understand community organization at local and continental scales , , 2006
Trends in Long Term Ecological Data Working Group , , 2006
Effects of N-fixing plants on diversity and species interactions , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Metabolic Theory of Ecology and Stream ecosystems , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Phenology across LTER , , 2006
Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products Wade Sheldon|Donald Henshaw|kramsey , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Characterizing the nature of the LTER network , , 2006
Ecosystem Services from Working Lands: Cross-site LTER Research , , 2006
Exploring the effect of scale-dependent processes on ecological systems using networked sensors , 2006
Status and Trends of ecosystems services: A Cross-Site comparison of LTER Sites , , 2006
Catalyzing cross-site comparisons of microbial diversity and function , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Patterns and Consequences of Shrub Encroachment across North America , , 2006
Polyphenols across the LTER: assessing fractions, forms and functions , , 2006
Ecology and Environmental Justice Research across the LTER Network: long-term and multi-scale understandings of past, present and future , , 2006
Grass lands data Integration of aboveground net primary productivity across sites and time , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
The influence of changes in terrestrial plant community structure on aquatic ecosystem function across the LTER network , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Toward a synthesis of LTER studies of small mammal populations and communities in arid and semiarid ecosystems , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
DIRT – continuation of C1 meetings Kate Lajtha 2004 Final Report (PDF)
The response of watershed nitrogen retention to large-scale climate disturbance across the LTER network. , , 2004
Cross-site Synthesis of Soil Microbial Enzymes in Response to N Deposition , , 2004
Importance of Consumer-driven Nutrient Recycling in Streams Across a Climatic Gradient – San Juan, PR , , 2004 Final Report (PDF)
Continuation of Fertilization Synthesis , , 2004
Shrub Dynamics: A Cross-Site Examination for Patterns & Consequences , , 2004
LTER Education Outreach , 2003
Disturbance & Variance: Detecting Change in Terrestrial & Aquatic Ecosystems James Rusak (jrusak) , , 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Performing Network-level Synthesis by Quantifying Ecosystem Goods and Services (LTER Synthesis Workshop) Matt Wilson|Daniel Childers 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Decline of Dominant Species Due to Invasive Pests & Pathogens , , 2003
LTER -Based Student Research Symposium to Stimulate Cross-Site Student Lead Collaboration , , 2003
N Deposition to Forested Ecosystems , , 2003
Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) , , 2003
Long-term Effects of Land Use History on Carbon & Water Balance , , 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Species Richness in Space and Time , , 2003
LTER Extreme Events Working Group Doug Goodin 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones , , 2003
LTER Workshop on Litter Decomposition Synthesis , , 2003
Functional Response to Resource Change across LTER Sites (Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones) Katharine Suding|Judy Li , , 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Synthetic Effort to Characterize the Controls on Nitrogen Transportation through Streams & Rivers Walter Dodds 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Metapopulation dynamics and Meta Community Structure , , 2003
A Functional Approach to Predicting Species Response to N Fertilization across LTER Sites , 2002